London-based Ukrainian soprano Inna Husieva is the current Opera Award Foundation Bursary Recipient. She is a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist for the 2023-24 season and an alumna of the National Opera Studio (2021-22), during which she performed on the stages of English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North and Cadogan Hall.

In 2022, Inna was invited by Glyndebourne to perform in the Concert for Ukraine with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Robin Ticciati. Since then, she has appeared on prominent UK stages, including Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke’s, King’s Place, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St Alban’s Abbey and Buxton Opera House.

A prize-winner of the DEBUT Singing Competition in Weikersheim (2022) and the Elizabeth Connell Prize in London (2023), Inna made her Austrian debut at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl as the Seraph in Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives under Erik Nielsen.

Inna has collaborated with Opera Rara, Opera North, Tangram Ensemble, Two Moors Festival, Sansara Choir, Il Gusto Barocco Orchestra, and the Würzburg Orchestra in Germany. She has recorded Roxanna Panufnik’s fundraising single, ‘Sleep, Jesus, Sleep’, for Signum Records and performed at the annual Christmas Carol Service at the Royal Military Chapel (Guards’ Chapel) in 2023.

Her operatic repertoire includes roles such as Pamina (The Magic Flute), Galatea (Acis and Galatea), Euridice/Cupid (Orfeo ed Euridice), Frasquita (Carmen), Silvana (A Flourish of Green(2013) by Missy Mazzoli), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), and Iolanta (Iolanta). At Scottish Opera, Inna has performed as Berta (The Barber of Seville), a Second Maid (Daphne), The Dew Fairy/The Sandman (Hansel & Gretel), and Violetta Valéry in Sir David McVicar’s acclaimed production of La Traviata for Access Performances in Theatre Royal Glasgow and Edinburgh Festival Theatre.

Originally from Ukraine, Inna began her vocal training at the Donetsk College of Music and then completed her musical education at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv under Prof. Evdokia Kolesnik.

Recent highlights include stepping into the title role of Alcina for Bampton Classical Opera. Future engagements include covering Helena in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in early 2025.

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February 2025